How to use Websphere liberty in spring boot application

Question

I want to use Websphere liberty in spring boot application instead of tomcat server. If I am correct it is not supported out of the box. How can I configure spring boot/websphere liberty to achieve this?

Answer 1

Using the Liberty app accelerator you can download a zip containing a Maven buildable 'Spring Boot with Spring MVC' app as your starting point. Just run mvn install and you'll get the app running at http://localhost:9080/myLibertyApp/

Answer 2

Actually, you can now create runnable jar files with WebSphere Liberty. You need v8.5.5.9 or higher. Create a runnable jar this way:

server package {server name} --archive={jar name}.jar --include=minify,runnable 

Resultant jar can be run as you'd expect:

java -jar {jar name}.jar